If Only I Had Told Her

Finn has been in love with his best friend Autumn for years. He is now dating Sylvie, and he is sure Autumn can never learn how he feels. Autumn loves books and wants to decide her own future, but fate does not always go along with people in love.

Jack, Finn's closest friend, has seen the pull between the two of them. He worries about how he will stand by Finn if heartbreak is coming.

The novel is a companion to If He Had Been with Me and is told from three points of view. Finn's section opens three days before his death. Jack's follows his grief and anger in the aftermath, and Autumn's follows her life without Finn.

Reading it is a slow, quiet experience that stays close to its characters. Autumn tries to hold love and loss together, and the book follows the connections that help the people left behind heal.